Description
Product ID: | 9781032349848 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Allegories of Neoliberalism |
Subtitle: | Contemporary South Asian Fictions, Capital, and Utopia |
Authors: | Author: Sarker Hasan Al Zayed |
Page Count: | 136 |
Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Popular culture, Social classes, Gender studies, gender groups, Social theory, Economic systems and structures, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Popular culture, Social classes, Gender studies, gender groups, Social theory, Economic systems & structures, Asia, Indian sub-continent |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism’s "forms of appearance." Simultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism’s “forms of appearance.” This book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay, and other writers from South Asia and South Asian diaspora. It also advances a re-reading of Karl Marx’s Capital through the themes and tropes of literature—one that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spatial relationship, financialization, and ecological devastation through the lens of the German revolutionary’s critique of capitalism. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-07-31 |